Profane Illumination by Margaret Cohen
This study analyzes the links between Andre Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Walter Benjamin's post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. It argues that Breton's surrealist Marxism played a role in shaping post-World War II intellectual life in France.
""This challenging, often profound book investigates the 'visual rhetoric of understanding' manifest in surrealism's and Marxism's 'emancipatory vocabularies' and dream imageryDrawing upon Walter Benjamin's and Andre Breton's theoretical, critical, and literary writings, Cohen posits a genre of 'Gothic Marxism, ' which owes much to Freud's psychoanalytic oeuvre. This genre links dialectical thinking, dreaming, and historical awakening with political, cultural, and artistic bricolage. . . . [In addition,] the book contains evocative illustrations." * CHOICE *
Margaret Cohen is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520080232 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520080238 |
| Title | Profane Illumination |
| Author | Margaret Cohen |
| Series | Weimar And Now: German Cultural Criticism Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1993-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 271 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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